Collar-stuffing machine



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W. FOGLESONG.

. COLLAR STUPFING MACHINE. No. 299,634. Patented JuneB. 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WASHINGTON FOGLESONG, or DAYTON, OHIO.

C OLLAR-STUFFING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,634, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed December 15, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it knownthat 1,-WASHINGTON FOGLE- SONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton,in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Stuffing Machines;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

. remedy this difficultyI i'mprovedthe machine by removing one of the said guards or fingers. Ialso found that the stuffing-rod did not distribute the tufts of straw as much as is desirable. To accomplish a better distribution by the stuffing-rod Iconstruot it now with a slanting end formed with several discharging-teeth, each of which discharges a portion of the wad or tuft.one portion behind the other-at each outstroke of the stuffing-rod; I also dispense with the pivoted hooks on the stuffing-rod described in my aforesaid Letters Patent and substitute in lieu thereof fixed teeth formed directly on the rod.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have illustrated in the annexed drawings, and will proceed to describe, the form thereof which I have used with practical success.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the collar-stuffing machine described in my aforesaid Letters Patent embodying the modifications of the construction of the stuffing-tube and stuffing-rod which constitute my present invention. Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate my improved stuffing-tubeand stuffing-rod in detail.

The same letters of reference indicate identical parts in all the figures.

The general construction and mode of operation of the collar-stuffingmachine illustrated in the annexed drawings are precisely the .same as those of the machine described in my aforesaid patent, to which reference In the practical oper-' may be had for a full description thereof, the following description being confined to the particular modifications made in the parts above referred to.

The stuffing-tube A terminates at its outer end with a single guard or finger, a, preferably inade tapering, as shown. I prefer to attach the tube to the hopper in such a way that the guard or finger a shall extend from the upper side of the tube, as shown. The stuffing-rod 0, made of a flat bar, as before, rests with its lower edge, which is smooth, on the bottom of the stuffing-tube, while its upper edge is provided with a series of ratchet-te'eth for feeding the straw from the hopper into and through the stuffing-tube, the teeth being extended back far enough 011 the rod that one or more of them-will, when the rod is retracted, extend into the hopper to engage the straw and draw it into the tube when the rod is projected again. The diameter of the stuffing-tube is made somewhat greater than the width of the stuffing-rod, as shown. The end of the stuffing-rod is turned up slantingly, so that its upper edge will reach to or nearly to the upper side of the stuffing-tube. This slanting end of the stuffing-rod is formed with a series of teeth, 0 c 0, so that thestraw discharged from the stuffingtube by aprojection of the stuffing-rod is delivered in a tuft more distributed than it could be were the end of the stuffing-rod constructed as shown in my aforesaid Letters Patent. This distribution or spreading of the tufts I find to be of great advantage to the proper stuffing of horse-collars.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a collar-stuffing machine, a stuffingtube constructed at its outer end with a single guard or finger, substantially as before set forth.

2. In a collar-stuffing machine, a stuffingrod constructed with a slanting end formed with a series of teeth, substantially as before set forth.

3. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the stuffing-tube provided with the single guard or finger on the outer end thereof, and the stuffing-rod having a slanting end formed with a series of teeth. v

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Vitnesses: WASHINGTON FOGLESONG.

v E. T. WVALKER, V

W. M. HANNAY.

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